{"id":2469,"date":"2022-09-30T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2022-11-23T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:32:13","slug":"september-2022-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/09\/september-2022-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2022 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style<\/em> &#8211; Matt Madden, 2005. A delightful and ingenious reimagining of Raymond Queneau&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exercises_in_Style\">Excercises de style<\/a> in graphic-novel form. I especially loved the homages to R. Crumb, Winsor McCay, the Bayeux Tapestry, Charles Atlas ads, and Chick comics; and Madden&#8217;s clever ringing of various conceptual changes reminds me of Sol LeWitt&#8217;s methodical approach.<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/09\/pachinko-min-jin-lee-2017\/\">Pachinko<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Min Jin Lee, 2017.<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/09\/the-tree-a-natural-history-of-what-trees-are-how-they-live-and-why-they-matter-colin-tudge-2006\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2621\">The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter<\/a><\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Colin Tudge, 2006<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/09\/daniel-deronda-george-eliot-1876\/\">Daniel Deronda<\/a><\/em> &#8211; George Eliot, 1876.<\/li><li><em>The Bridge Across Forever<\/em> &#8211; Richard Bach, 1982. A friend brought up <em>Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/em> (as the epitome of a terrible best-seller, as I recall), and I mentioned this one, which led to another re-read. Bach is one of my love-them-despite-their-flaws authors; he might easily be the worst of the bunch (some others are Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dick Francis, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, Nevil Shute, Dornford Yates), but he&#8217;s got <em>something<\/em> that draws me back. It&#8217;s such a weird combo of sappy and quirky, of wish-fulfillment and unwitting self-owns. And although I don&#8217;t believe in the kind of eternal\/astral soulmates he describes, Jonathan is my forever partner and I root for stories of true intimate partnership. The real Richard Bach and Leslie Parrish broke up, but the couple in this book still has a place in my heart.<\/li><li><em>The Dark is Rising<\/em> &#8211; Susan Cooper, 1973. <a href=\"https:\/\/annabookbel.net\/tdirs22-the-dark-is-rising-sequence-book-2-the-dark-is-rising#comment-132150\">Read<\/a> for Annabookbel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/annabookbel.net\/tag\/tdirs22\">#TDiRS22<\/a>. I was surprised to realize I had never read it before, so it&#8217;s lovely to have this monthly journey to complete the series.<\/li><li><em>Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads<\/em> &#8211; ed David Morrell, Hank Wagner, 2010. I love books-about-books, and although thrillers aren&#8217;t my favorite genre, I enjoy some of them. I added a few to my to-read pile, from old (Oppenheimer&#8217;s<em> Great Impersonation<\/em>) to sort-of-old (Goldman&#8217;s <em>Marathon Man<\/em>).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style &#8211; Matt Madden, 2005. A delightful and ingenious reimagining of Raymond Queneau&#8217;s Excercises de style in graphic-novel form. I especially loved the homages to R. Crumb, Winsor McCay, the Bayeux Tapestry, Charles Atlas ads, and Chick comics; and Madden&#8217;s clever ringing of various conceptual changes reminds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}